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Protecting Delicate Victorian Feminists from the Trauma of Salary Negotiations

April 10, 2015 by V the K

According to modern Feminist theory, women are emotionally fragile and delicate creatures who must be treated like children and protected from the harsh realities of life. They tend to be overcome with “the vapors” when exposed to strange, new ideas, and must therefore be sent to “safe spaces” — equipped with Play-Doh, and crayons, and teddy bears — to recover when hearing a politically incorrect opinion leaves them faint.

In this spirit, the new female, minority chairhead of Reddit has decided that since women are too fragile to compete in the business world at the level of men… all salary negotiations will be banned going forward.

As Reddit’s interim CEO, Pao said she wants to eliminate salary negotiations from the company’s hiring process.

In her first interview since the lawsuit, Pao told with the Wall Street Journal Monday that the plan would help level the playing field.

“Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,” she said. “So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.”

An interesting side effect of this is that it puts all the power on the side of the employer. Instead of negotiating a better deal for one’s skills, the employee is stuck with a one-size-fits-all salary, with only the choice of taking it or leaving it. (A lot of “progressive” policies seem to have the side effect of concentrating power in the hands of authoritarian.)

And here’s something interesting. The Reddit Chairhead filed a sexual discrimination complaint against a previous employer … and lost.

Last Friday, a jury decided that the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers did not discriminate or retaliate against Pao in a case that debated gender imbalance and working conditions for women in Silicon Valley.

Just putting that out there.

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Filed Under: Equality (Real or Faux?) Tagged With: feminism

Comments

  1. Craig Smith says

    April 11, 2015 at 12:43 am - April 11, 2015

    This isn’t just feminist think, it is UNION think, as well. Everyone who does a certain job gets the same amount, no matter how good or how poor they are at it.

    And Socialist think, too. Equal pay for equal labor, even when that labor isn’t equal.

  2. RDM says

    April 11, 2015 at 6:16 am - April 11, 2015

    Except the union executives, you mean …

  3. Sean L says

    April 11, 2015 at 6:57 am - April 11, 2015

    It’s amazing how well conditioned Leftists are. The government can trample all over their rights… as long as it’s in the name of national security, or marriage equality, or whatever the heck Leftists care about. A CEO can rescind potential employees’ negotiating power… as long as they say it’s to help women. So many Leftists are truly gullible.

  4. Mary says

    April 11, 2015 at 8:43 am - April 11, 2015

    How does one learn how to negotiate but by doing it? Seems like Elaine wants ALL people, women included, to be under the thumb of a non-union/union company headed by her. Bet she negotiated her salary. All hail the Empress.

  5. just me says

    April 11, 2015 at 10:10 am - April 11, 2015

    Leftists right now are more fascist than Marxist but they don’t see it.

  6. Dachs_dued says

    April 11, 2015 at 11:23 am - April 11, 2015

    The most telling line this this: “If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.”

    So they’ll give you more worthless “equity” in their non-public stock, in exchange for a lower salary. The only thing more of a rip-off is if she started to consider all her employees as ‘independent contractors’. Those who’ve been victimized by that scam know it all to well.

  7. Steve says

    April 11, 2015 at 12:11 pm - April 11, 2015

    “pay me for performance not attendance” That said when they call you with a job offer is the time to make a small error on what the offer was ie ” you said the position was for x+ 20-30 cents higher.”

  8. Richard Bell says

    April 11, 2015 at 1:40 pm - April 11, 2015

    I’m so tired of this progressive nonsense. How about some syncopation and real females?…………..Ah, that’s better.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds7g3M-4lQ&feature=youtu.be

  9. Heliotrope says

    April 11, 2015 at 2:24 pm - April 11, 2015

    ….we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair.

    Ahem:”don’t negotiate” is absolute; “we think is fair” is totally subjective. There is neither argument nor justification here. Just “my way or the highway” despotic decree.

    She-who-must be-obeyed has spoken. Do not mess with her dictum as it impugns her competency and reveals the inherent sexist character deficiency of the bigoted male who dares challenge her.

  10. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    April 11, 2015 at 4:52 pm - April 11, 2015

    If a male CEO made that same announcement, there would be a DOJ investigation and he’s be forced to publicly-resign in disgrace. **crickets from the Left**

  11. Conservative Guy says

    April 13, 2015 at 3:01 am - April 13, 2015

    Maybe it’s time to bring back the fainting couch?

  12. Craig Smith says

    April 14, 2015 at 6:04 am - April 14, 2015

    @Dachs_dued, it would not be seen as such a scam if employees had, on their paycheck, a list of all of the expenses an employer has to mete out to employ them as a grand total, then had all that additional money taken off again. Then be told that, as an independent contractor, they would become responsible for paying each and every one of these taxes on their own.

  13. Professor Hale says

    April 14, 2015 at 8:09 am - April 14, 2015

    Reminds me of when Saturn was a car company. They advertized their “no-haggle” prices. Their marketing was geared to women. It was more of a support group than a car company.

    I had to remind a woman I knew that EVERY car company is “no-haggle” if you just pay them whatever they ask.

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